Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers. "An Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties") Spokane, WA: Western Historical Publishing Co., 1905. p. 463. EUGENE S. CATTRON representative of the Pacific Coast Elevator Company for Sherman county, and mayor of Wasco, Sherman county, was born in Monmouth, Oregon, July 14, 1864, the son of Jonathan and Alvira (Shelton) Cattron. The father was a native of Kentucky, a member of an old family of Holland descent. His parents moved to Missouri while he was a small boy. The mother of our subject, a native of Missouri, resides in Portland, Oregon. It was in 1850 that the father of our subject came to Oregon, overland with ox teams to California, and by boat to Oregon from San Francisco. The mother, with her parents, had preceded him in 1846, locating in Yamhill county, where she remained five years and where she was married to the father of our subject. Following this he removed to Polk county where he died in 1872. He was a stanch Republican, active in campaigns, but never sought office. He was, also, one of the promoters of the old Monmouth University, of which he was secretary. This institution was later known as Christian College, and at present the State Normal school. Our subject continued to live in Monmouth until 1897 when he came to Sherman county, having previously been graduated from Christian College and the Monmouth State Normal school. In 1885 he taught school six months and then engaged in the grain business, conducting a warehouse eight years. This enterprise he disposed of and took a trip east to attend the World's Fair at Chicago. Returning he again engaged in the warehouse business two years, sold out and came to Sherman county, August, 1897, as the county representative of the Pacific Coast Elevator Company. In 1899 he was elected mayor of Wasco on a citizen's ticket and is now serving his third term. At the city of Wallace, Idaho, October 6, 1899, Mr. Cattron was united in marriage to Miss Verne Lytle, a native of Missouri, the daughter of Walter S. and Helen Lytle. Her father, a native of Pennsylvania, is assistant auditor of the steamship lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company at Seattle. Mrs. Cattron has two sisters, Bertha, single, living with her father at Seattle, and Helen, wife of Captain Charles Smithers, instructor at the military college of West Point. Our subject has one brother and three sisters living; Edgar, of the hardware firm of Jensen, King, Byrd Company, Spokane, Washington; Laura, single, residing at Eugene; Alice, wife of T. J. Craig, of Portland, a druggist; and Bertha, wife of C. E, Clodfelter, of the Brownsville Woolen Company, of Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Cattron have one child, Helen, aged four years. The fraternal affiliations of our subject are with the B. P. 0. E., No. 303, The Dalles, and the Knights of Pythias, of Wasco, of which he is chancellor commander. He is a Republican and quite frequently is called upon to serve as delegate to county conventions and several times he has acted in a like capacity at state conventions. Mr. Cattron is a gentleman of pleasing address and marked executive and financial ability, one who has won a host of friends in a wide circle of acquaintances. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2011 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.